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Sorry, it's a very parochially British viewpoint. Perhaps where you are there's also the same undercurrent, just not visible in the mainstream. You may have to dig a little.

Cultural malaise often hides beneath the surface. One of the most frightening accounts of this, on a more international stage, is what Slavoj Zizek had to say on it; He said that in the former Yugoslavia, humour kept ethnic tensions at bay. The civil war was foreshadowed by a creeping political correctness and people "not finding things funny anymore".